There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.